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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association; 27 April 2016

JAMIA publishes, "Development and usage of wiki-based software for point-of-care emergency medical information," a full research paper outlining the development of WikEM, "the world’s largest
open-access emergency medicine secondary resource."

The Osmosis Blog; July 6, 2015

Osmosis.org interviews the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of WikEM, as part their Leaders in Medical Education series. Read some of the history behind how WikEM started.

“If anything should be free and open in this world, then certainly the knowledge to care for your fellow human during an emergency has to be on the top of that list.

Over the last six years, [WikEM has] gone from having just a few people accessing the site per day to tens of thousands of sessions per month with over 100,000 downloads of the app to date. WikEM is now the most popular emergency medicine-specific application in the world and is open to all medical providers across the globe to help edit, as a key open access resource. We can now take that life-saving knowledge off the pedestal and put it for free into the countless hands of providers working at bedsides around the globe."
http://blog.osmosis.org/2015/07/leaders-medical-education-dr-ross-donaldson-creator-editor-chief-wikem/

Annals of Emergency Medicine; April, 2015

"The authors would like to thank the OpenEM Foundation for the substantial work that they have done in creating WikEM and encourage the readers of Annals of Emergency Medicine to use and contribute to this resource."

Annals of Emergency Medicine; April, 2015

"WikEM, supported by the nonprofit OpenEM Foundation, provides a way for medical practitioners to organize online content and cross-reference clinical information...[and] is by far the largest emergency medicine wiki...

Blogs, podcasts, videocasts, social networks, and custom search engines are all important resources for stimulating research discussion and improving medical education. However...the wiki is a key social media tool to organize and summarize this growing body of online information. It also has the added benefit of providing easy access to consensus information in the middle of a shift, allowing clinicians to provide better care while at the bedside."

"...the opportunity for residents from around the world to do so through the WikEM elective, which is organized through the OpenEM Foundation and endorsed by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident and Student Association"